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CERCOPlDiE. 



longitudinally smooth and slightly depressed ; mesosternal 

 tubercles subprominent ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; 

 body beneath finely pilose ; posterior tibise with a strong spine 

 beyond middle ; tegmina about two and a half times as long as 

 broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 7 ; exp. tegm. 17 to 18 millim. 



Hah. Bombay (Leith ^f Dixon). 



A small and very distinctly marked species. 



E. Tegmina blacl- or piceous, only more or less spotted near base. 



2313. Cosmoscarta tricolor, St. Farq. ^- Serv. (Cercopis) Enc. Meth. 

 X, p. G04 (1825) ; But!. (Cosmoscarta) Cist. Ent. i, p. 245 (1874) ; 

 Dist. J. A. S. B. xlviii (2) p. 40, t. xi, f. 5 (1879) ; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 6 (1885). 



Var. Head (including face) and body above testaceous-red ; 

 some small spots on each side of pronotum near anterior margin, 

 lateral fasciae to the abdomen above and base of scutellum 

 black ; body beneatli black ; lateral margins of prosteruum, legs 

 and margins of abdominal segments testaceous-red ; intermediate 

 and posterior femora (excluding apices) black ; tegmina black, 

 Avith base of clavus and four spots in irregular transverse series a 

 little beyond base, sanguineous ; wings fuliginous, extreme base 



Fig. 105. — Cosmoscarta tricolor. 



var. 



sanguineous, and with two pale greyish longitudinal lines in radial 

 area ; head transversely impressed in front of eyes ; pronotum 

 finely wrinkled and punctate, longitudinally carinate on anterior 

 half, lateral margins broadly reflexed ; face transversely striate on 

 lateral areas, centrally, broadly, longitudinally smooth ; meso- 

 sternal tubercles broad, compressed, subcouically acute ; posterior 

 tibiae with a strong spine beyond middle ; tegnn'ua rather more 

 than two and a half times as long as broad. 



Differs from the typical form of 0. tricolor in haviiag the basal 

 spots to the tegmina sanguineous, rather than stramineous or 

 ocliraceous, and in the more testaceous colour of the pronotum. 



Length excl. tegm. 19 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 45 to 48 millim. 



